Whether you love good, crazy Bollywood movies, or action-packed Tollywood and Tamil Cinema, cool sports-related originals, or the largest available store of K-Dramas, animes, thrill and mystery series, Viu can be a one-size-fits-all streaming media for you. And most of it is FREE!

Is Viu Available for Free ?

Viu is mainly a freemium subscription service. It has a lot of content, including TV shows, movies and originals that can be streamed online or downloaded to watch offline.

It claims that 70% of its content is available for free.

The free subscription contains ads

For free users, the videos are displayed at 480p max quality.

The free plan allows the download of only one video at a time. It means you have to delete the existing video to download a new video. The downloaded video stays for 7 days only.

What is Viu Premium?

The Premium plan has additional features, such as-

Ad-free streaming

Priority viewing (as early as 72 hours before free users),

High resolution [1080p] viewing

Access to some Premium Paid content.

Download as many videos as you like which stay till the time you have a subscription.

Viu Premium Pricing

The rates for the premium subscription vary territory-wise.

Viu Premium in India

Free Trial

For Viu-vers in India, the premium plan comes for a 30-day free trial.

Viu Price Plan for Indian Users:

After the trial period, the subscription to the Premium plan costs-

INR 99 for 2 months

INR 299 for six months

INR 599 for 12 months

If you pay through carrier billing, and you have insufficient prepaid balance, you can be automatically subscribed to a weekly pack. The charges for different carriers being:

Viu Premium Hacks for Indian Users

Flipkart Plus members get 3 months of Viu Premium subscription for free. Users can claim the offer on the Plus members’ page and get the coupon code.

To pay for the subscription user has the choice to pay via PayTM, Promo Codes, Paypal, Freecharge, Carrier Billing, and Credit or Debit Cards.

Viu Premium in Malaysia

Free Trial:

For Viu-vers in Malaysia, the premium plan comes with a one-month free trial.

Viu Price Plan- Malaysia:

The premium plan, after the period of the one-month free trial, begins at RM10 per month.

Viu Promo codes & Hacks for Malaysian Users

Celcom customers can get an additional one-month free subscription.

If you are a customer of Digi, yay for you. You can avail 5GB data and a month of Viu subscription bundled at RM5.

UniFi, TM and Streamyx customers are eligible for a free three-month premium subscription of Viu. Also, Shopee offers a premium subscription of Viu for 6 months at only RM48 (saving RM12) (visit Shopee for more offers).

Viu Premium in Singapore

Free Trial:

Pricing Plan:

After the trial period of two months, Viu has a low monthly premium plan of S$6.98.

Viu Promotions and Hacks

If you are a Singtel customer, lucky for you. As it is the only telecom partner with Viu-Singapore, the premium service is available for a low monthly price of S$4.90 (and another free trial month).

Customers of Singtel can also upgrade directly from their internet package. The subscription can be bundled up with 1 GB data pack with an additional S$3 per month.

Viu Premium in Thailand

Trial Duration:

Viu-vers in Thailand can avail a free trial for one month.

Premium Plan Cost:

Post one month, a customer can upgrade to premium for only 119 TBH per month.

Viu Premium for Hong Kong users

Free Trial Duration:

For a new customer, Viu provides a one-month trial period after which the premium begins.

HongKong Pricing:

After the free trial is over, Viu charges HK$15 monthly as the premium subscription.

Viu Subscription in South Africa

Free:

For Viu-vers of South Africa, Viu content comprises only of the local TV shows, as Viu has paid partnership with Etv, SABC, and Vodacom. Thus, most of the content available is free.

Paid:

The Viu Premium subscription in South Africa is available at-

R69 per month or

R20 a week or

R5 per day.

Viu Premium in Indonesia

Free Trial:

For Viu-vers in Indonesia, the streaming service offers a trial period of 30 days.

Price Plan:

After the completion of the trial period, the subscription price is IDR 30,000. (US$ 2.15).

Viu Promotional Offers for Indonesian Users:

Viu has tied up with IndiHome Fiber, Telkomsel and Samsung to provide fast speeds to its users across devices. While IndiHome and Telkom have bundled plans and data packages, Samsung will let Samsung Galaxy users access all Viu content through the ‘Viu partner offer’.

Viu Subscription in the Philippines

Free:

The free trial period for Viu-vers in the Philippines is one month.

Viu Philippines Price Plan:

After the free trial period ends, the premium subscription is

₱129 per month

₱1188 for 12 months ( ₱99 per month effectively).

Viu Promo codes & Discounts for Philippines Users

Currently, Viu is offering a discount of 25% on the use of code VIUZEROADS to all premium subscribers in the Philippines, in their Lazada store. This offer is valid till 14th April only.

Users can also avail a premium pack of one year at ₱990 (saving ₱198) at Shopee.

If you pay through Globe, the monthly premium becomes ₱99.

Viu Free & Premium Content

Viu offers the largest Asian content available on a streaming site. It provides Kdramas, Japanese Series, Anime, Variety Shows, Movies and Music programs. Besides these, Viu has Original Indian Hindi content as well, including Banned, Truth or Tamanna, Jammin’, Memories, Kaushiki and 13 Mussorie. While the bulk of the content is from Korea, Viu is expanding its content sources to other countries such as Hong Kong and Thailand as well. While most of the content is youth-oriented, it has a wide variety of content to watch from. We here at FlickZee have a list of some curated content that you can start watching right away.

Viu KDrama

Viu is one place to find most of the Korean Dramas. Most of the content is free. The Korean dramas accessible are popular and subtitled for viewer ease, some of which are-

Monster

Prime Minister and I

Black Knight

Good Doctor

Boys over Flowers

City Hunter

The Heirs

Marriage Contract.

The Accidental Couple and many more.

Viu Indian Originals

The list of Originals produced by Viu is wide and large. The Originals are available in the audio of the language of the regional area, but with subtitles available in English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. Viu is on its way to launch content in Arabic and Bangla as well. Some of the best originals available on Viu are-

Kaushiki featuring Rannvijay Singh and Sayani Gupta

It Happened In Hong Kong featuring Amol Parashar and Aahana Kumra

Love Lust and Confusion starring Tara Alisha Berry and Rajat Barmecha

No 1 Yaari with Rana which features Rana Daggubati

‘Hello Saga’ starring Shruti Hassan

I Can You Can ft. Milind Soman

The Bridge

Devoted

Viu has also produced sports originals-

Viu has some exclusive (and inclusive) content on regional languages Tamil and Telugu as well. It also has content from award-winning Tamil short films from makers like Manikandan and Venkat Prabhu. Some of these are available with Hindi and English subtitles and most of it is free.

Pill A

Pelli Gola

Nila Nila Odi Va

Door No. 43

Thiru Thiru Thuru Thuru

Spotlight

Viu Hindi Movies

Viu is a one-size-fits-all Video On Demand site. It offers various movies from Bollywood as well as Tollywood. (In India) Besides, it offers movies of the regional area. In India, the available movies include-

Viu Telugu Movies

The Super Khiladi

Satyadev- The Fearless Cop

Yevadu

Son of Satyamurthy

Sarrainodu etc.

Viu Tamil Movies

Sketch

Jamai Raja

Bhairava

Kanchana

Rajmahal etc.

Viu – Devices Supported

Viu App is available for both Android (4.1 and above) and iOS (8.0 and above) platforms. The website can also be accessed on PC, Tablet and Mobile browsers. At any given time, the Viu account is accessible on a maximum of 5 devices. The Viu App is available on Play Store for Android users, on App store for iOS users and on http://www.VIU.com for PC users.

Viu India App features:

Free App that streams most of the content for free.

Download in HD to watch offline

Subtitle options in the available languages

Enable or Disable Subtitles

Push Notification alerts available for the latest content

Pros and Cons of Viu Premium

Pros:

Viu showcases over 70% of the available Korean Drama.

It is the store to a maximum variety of content including Kdrama, anime, Originals, Hollywood series and movies, Bollywood movies and even the regional content of the respective country.

Even for a freemium model, Viu offers a lot of content.

The picture clarity is 480p, even for a free user.

The premium price is very low. It beats other users.

Viu has a partnership with regional carriers providing the customer to pay through telecom carrier.

For any available content, Viu provides regional language subtitle.

For fans who are fans of Asian content, Viu is one of the very few streaming sites.

Not just TV content, Viu has also partnered with several YouTubers (not some budding ones, but famous YouTubers like Black Sheep and Fully Filmy)

Cons:

For a free customer, there are too many ads.

Viu has availability only over 15 countries.

A user can avail only his/her regional content as Viu is IP based.

The free model consists of a drawback where you can only download one episode at a time and only for 7 days.

It uses too much data [1.3 GB an hour (basic)] as even the lowest quality is 480p.

Vindhya

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